Barry Solomon

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About Barry Solomon

Strategic financial sector focused Enterprise Architect and Software Engineering department leader, with expertise in solving business problems by delivering highly-scalable, secure, resilient and cost-optimized cloud-native applications in agile environments. Experienced in delivering large scale microservices, real-time and batch based distributed data processing solutions and web-based user facing application, with high emphasis on best-in-class marketing technology CX solutions. Accomplished in building and leading high performance teams, partnering with business/technical stakeholders; leading and performing software architecture, development, testing, integration and support of distributed solutions using cloud and on-prem computing Passion for learning and applying emerging technologies to business solutions. Client-focused, self-driven, results-oriented individual capable of driving innovation in large teams while partnering across lines of business within an enterprise to achieve great customer results. Extensive global leadership experience in large, complex, technology-driven B2B and B2C enterprises across diverse industries including oil & gas, commercial & private banking, publishing, and IT consulting. • Extraordinary communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, selling enterprise solutions effectively to all executive levels for well over two decades. • Delivered $20 to $30 million dollars per year in IBM revenue as a business manager over an IBM Consulting Business Unit of 15 people for 8 years, with a matrixed dotted line leadership of 102 IBM India practitioners • Delivered $4 million in IBM revenue as an IBM Cloud Delivery Leader for 1 year • Chief Architect, IBM outsourced Williams account in Tulsa – 2006 • Application Architect / Agile SCRUM Master for several non-consecutive years • TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect • IBM Certified SOA Solution Architect